Love these long range ‘predictions’
Remember back in the ‘dark ages’ (1970s +) when ‘WE’ wanted to drill for oil in the ocean, north slope etc etc etc and all the pols were het up on it and raring to go?
Then a wag would come along and say...
“Lets try something different, besides - it will be 6 (pick a #) years before any production starts, SO the pols would ‘shelve’ it for the ‘new technology’.
About 6 years later, the discussion would come up with the same faux enthusiasm, same (or new) wag with same ‘explanation’.
Well, after 5 or 6 (It will be 6 YEARS before anything flows) you would think ‘WE’ would catch on and figure someone/thing is blowing smoke where the sun don’t shine.
Same with the ‘end of the world’ predictions and yes, if one TRULY believes it is all going to end in 12 years, why would anyone ‘worry’ about retirement, wars, taxes etc etc etc or for that matter, ‘plan for the future’
Guess the only hope is to try and convince those that believe it that it will be so ‘terrible’, may as well OFF YOURSELF NOW and get it over with.
Sort of the same idea of wishing that all the MILITANT PRO-ABORTION TYPES had parents that thought the same way they supposedly do.
I was 14 years old in junior high in 1970 and they were telling us we were going to be over populated, “The Population Boom’’ and there was an ice age coming.